Sakura08: Swagpost Day Two, Wrap-Up, & Random Pics
So it turns out that tomorrow’s Bandai Visual USA panel has been cancelled, which means I have no panels to cover, which means I’ll probably spend most of the day hanging around in the dealer’s room, acting as a booth babe for KumoriCon.
In the meantime, here are the primary highlights from the panels I covered:
- TOKYOPOP has put Kino no Tabi on hold indefinitely and they blame themselves, but didn’t detail the reasons.
- TOKYOPOP.com v2.5 is due in the next few weeks.
- Bandai Entertainment DOES have the rights to season 2 of Code Geass (not surprising, but nice to know). The DVDs of season 1 will also feature many of the bonus stuff that came with the Japanese discs, including sketch booklets and stuff.
- This was sorta already known, but TWO versions of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time/Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo are going to be sent to theaters: a digital dubbed version to theaters that can handle those, and a subbed 35mm version. So what appears in your city (if anything) will vary depending on what your theater takes. The dub will premiere at NYCC in April.
- Dark Horse’s CLAMP project may be a candidate for a movie, although it’s still unclear whether that’s a possibility for one of the seven movies that Universal makes on its own or whether they might try to self-finance, but it’s still an exciting possibility, to use Carl Horn’s words.
- DH’s Domo-kun doll is also coming available soon, including exclusive colors at San Diego Comic Con (yellow) and for Newberry (green).
- FUNimation is still pushing Operation Anime, their anime club connection program.
- Info on Ouran High School Host Club should hit this summer and will be released uncut.
- Koge Donbo is too busy working on Kamichama Karin Chu! to do a second volume of Broccoli’s Kon Kon Kokon. Sad charats!
- VIZ Media and Antarctic Press both mysteriously no-showed. (I have an e-mail out to VIZ asking what’s up and who I might ask some questions.)
I’ll be dropping by the dot anime booth to see if any BVU folks are around to chat with for a bit, since they didn’t have a panel, so I’ll let you know if I glean anything interesting from that– and I’ll check in with Sheehan regarding One Piece on Cartoon Network. Now, the swagpost…
Closeups (but not of the doujinshi ♥) and a couple of cosplay shots (including another L-in-disguise) after the jump!
And you guys think crossplay is a BAD thing…
L is in disguise again! He’s so tricksy.
NONO!
Do you know if there is a list of where The Girl Who Leapt Through Time will screen? Not that I’m expecting it to be here in Blacksburg/Christiansburg or even up the road in Roanoke, but even if it is remotely near here I may try to go see it (oh please dear god Abingdon have it if it isn’t here).
Maybe Arundel Mills should screen it during Otakon (assuming it isn’t screend at Otakon itself). That could get some people to go see it.
CLAMP-based-movies = instant win. But they should do an Angelic Layer movie lol. I always thought that would transfer decently into a movie. Besides, I want my Angelic Layer video game where I can design my own angel.
@Josh: No list yet, not until they book a few more locations for sure. There’ll be a press release and info on their website when the info is releasable.
Ah gia no fun we gotta see what yaoi doujins you read ^_~
[...] time: Gia continues her Sakura Con coverage with a report on the Dark Horse panel and a roundup of important news. Deb Aoki was there as well, and she notes that Dark Horse editor Carl Horn complained of slow sales [...]
[...] time: Gia continues her Sakura Con coverage with a report on the Dark Horse panel and a roundup of important news. Deb Aoki was there as well, and she notes that Dark Horse editor Carl Horn complained of slow sales [...]